Wilfred Grenfell Autograph Letter Signed. ...
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Wilfred Grenfell Autograph Letter Signed. Four pages of a bifolium; 4.5" x 7", 12 Washington Square North, New York; December 14, n.y. A letter from Grenfell to Margaret Deland concerning the gift of one of her books featuring the character Dr. Lavendar, possibly Dr. Lavendar's People, which was published in 1903.Condition: Usual mail folds and light soiling. A few light pencil notations, and one circular rust stain on the first page.
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Dear Mrs. Deland
I know the dear old Doctor so well, and really meet him so often I am delighted to have your book with details of some of his friend's doings. I see in America, & I've met him in England & in my wife's expressive Chicago phraseology 'he is a darling.'
Thanks ever so much for the inscription in the beginning of the book - as it is a real pleasure to have a token of friendship from the creator of so charming a personality. The little piece of philosophy too is entirely my own, though I know I learnt a good deal of it from Dr. Lavendar himself.
As a missionary in another line, & yet the same line, I want to heartily thank you for the book.
Sincerely your
Friend Wilfred Grenfell"
Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1865-1940) was an English born medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador. He married Elizabeth Caldwell MacClanahan (d. 1938).
Margaret Deland (nee Margaretta Wade Campbell) (1857-1945) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. Her many books included Dr. Lavendar's People (1903), and short story collections Old Chester Tales (1898), Around Old Chester (1915), and New Friends in Old Chester (1924), which featured the minister of the English town of Old Chester, Dr. Lavendar.
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